The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-15 00:00:00

HIG WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOKROW. M0rning........ 23 minntes after 1 1 F,rening 50 miuutes after 1 T HE BRITISH WAX CANDLE, SOAP, AND OIL COMPANY. Capital 100,000 10,000 Shares of 101. each. Deposit 21. per Share—Premium 11. Applications for Shares and Prospectuses to be made (if by let ter, post paid) to the Solicitor, C. M. Ullithorne, Esq., 26, Red Lion-square. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Cloth. 464 , e R l . .. t ... 4 .. ' ‘ ,1 '.7, - ;) - ‘ 5 , - 1 - i-c--(11,-,-!: Zsf)? P - *lll-1 WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN " IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1838. The Herald of this morning blows a loud note of triumph over the defeat .of the " IVhig project of Sabbath desecration by a Sunday delivery of letters." " The Tory Journals," says the Globe of last night, " have been recently employed in getting up a clamour against the Government, for an alleged intention to open the Post-office on Sundays." Here we have it all but avowed by the organs of faction, than an ar rangement of a purely administrative nature, which, be it for good or evil, concerns only giving facilities to commerce and to intercommunication between families and friends, is made a handle of to effect a despicable party purpose. The hypocrical Tories, seeing in the report of a project to open the Post-office, a means of directing all the strong feelings which arc connected with religion against the Government, assailed it as " Godless," dwelt on the horrors which had fallen on infidel France, and sought to implicate the Whig iNlinisters in a design to violate the religion of the country. The not less hypocritical writers of the opposite party, not content with merely denying any design to attack religion, hastened to clear the Minis ters from any suspicion of wishing to serve the public, and of rising superior to cant, and declared that the Ministers never could think of any thing so irreligious and outrageous, as to wish to have done in London, on the Sabbath, that which is done in Presbyterian Edinburgh and Glasgow, in Catholic Dublin, and in every other town of the empire, without the shadow of a shade of inconvenience, of criminality, or of blame. We were obliged yesterday to find fault with a Morning Contemporary for vying with the Tory Journals in a deference to the cant of the day ; and following in its wake, as if there were a settled design on the part of the Ministers to cast off from themselves all suspicion of entertaining an en lightened policy, and being honestly resolved to serve the public. In spite of the hypocritical cant and clamour of the Tories, the Globe of last night hastened to assure the public that the " Government never at any time entertained the intention of making the alleged alteration." To shield the Government from the accusations of the hypocritical Tories—which to all rational men are an honour—the Globe and the Chronicle are eager to convince their readers that " this subject was forced on the notice of Government by a Parliamentary Committee," which, therefore, and not the Government, deserves all the epithets of God less" and " Infidel," with which the Tories have stigmatized that act in London which is neither godless, nor infidel, nor irreligious in Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Our Morning Contemporaries, both Tory and Whig, who desecrate the Sabbath every week, have a different morality for London and Edinburgh, or even for London and Barnet. What is a horrible desecration at St. Martin's-le-Grand, is quite vir. tuous at the first stage out of town. We regret much to see the Press lending itself to such a mockery of holiness, and taking up arms against a useful, and even necessary improvement, because one party perverts into get, and the other rejects it, because it is afraid of losing office. How long the present Ministers may hold office we cannot foresee, but if they are to re tire at Easter, as the Tories prognosticate, they should be anxious to leave behind them a reputation of being superior to vulgar clamour, and of having designed to confer on the country a great administrative im provement. As we said yesterday, however much the priests may insist on all other labour but thcirs—for they la bour exclusively on Sunday—being then suspended— that all men, women, and children, may listen only to them, the rigid observance of Sunday as they pre scribe it, is not a religious ordinance. Christ did not take up his abode in the temple, and read or expound the law on the Sabbath ; he walked about on that day ; and the observance of Sunday is more a Catholic than a Christian institu tion, as preaching and teaching in churches have rather a Pagan than a Christian origin. Thus, how ever useful it may be to cease from labouring on Sun day, that has no warrant in Christianity ; and it is a scandal to the politicians of both parties, and a scandal to the political writers in the Press, that they oppose the introduction of an improvement into the metropolis, now the centre of communication between 24,000,000 people, to say nothing of its immense foreign connec tions, because it is contrary to religion, which is practised throughout religious Scotland, and even through out Europe, without the slightest injury to the reli gious feelings of a single individual. It may not be right—it may be very inconvenient—to open the Post office in ,London on Sunday, but if inconvenient and wrong, it is not irreligious ; and the resistance to the opening ought to be placed on its true basis, of being injurious to the ease, comfort, enjoyment, country rides, and dinner parties of the Cockneys. AM orning Contemporary, with great simplicity, ex presses astonishment that it was not discovered long ago how extremely ill-judged it was for the Corporation of London to allow their cfficers to b ecome the mere tools of the coal-factors in regulating the coal monopoly. H e might with as much reason express astonishment that the Corporation, or any of their officers, took illegal fees, or winked at jobs, or in any way forgot the interests of the citizens, for paltry concerns of their own. The whole frame-work of this great Corporate body is bound up together, and however ill the system has worked for th e inhabitants, as the enormous expenditure of half-a_ million a-year makes them feel, it has worked ad mirably for those who, according to their own language, devote their time and energies to the public good. Mr. BRA DFIELD has taken some pains to show that the City functionaries did not serve the coal-factors for nought—that Aldermen and Common Councilmen had an interest in the coal monopoly, and that, owing to the mismanagement of the Corporation alone, the inhabitants of London had to pay an enormous price for one of the great necessaries of life. Does not the result prove the fact ? Since the subject was taken up by the LORD MAYOR, the Navigation Committee have carried into effect certain regulations which, in all probability, will break up the monopoly. The price of coals, that formerly rapidly advanced at this season, has been for some time stationary, and lat terly has been on the decline ; and, if the good inten tions of the LORD MAYOR are not frustrated by his brother Corporators, or some of their countless cousins, the poor, even this winter, may feel the benefit of Mr. BRADFIELD'S agitation. The duty is a trifle com pared with the enormous tax levied by the monopolists ; and were the Corporation to consult the interests of the public as they have long consulted their own, the price would in a short time be reduced at least one-third, and we might have coals as cheap here as at any place along the south of England. The first election for Common Councilmen under the New Charter for Manchester, is a curious indication of the political and religious feeling of that great centre of our new constituency.. All the persons elected are Reformers, and the only contest was between shades of Reformers. In one district the Torch-light Ra dicals, as they are called, got up an opposition, and mustered 100 votes. Of these Reformers ten only are Churchmen, and the remaining 38 are Dissenters of one kind or another from the Establishment. Four- teen of them, even, are Unitarians, who thus out number, amongst the representatives of that hive of industry, the persons connected with the Church. We consider this a very remarkable cir cumstance, more even for what it indicates in future than at present. The population of Manchester may be assumed as an index to the crowing population of the empire, as the rural population may be taken as an index to the stationary part of the community. Amongst the latter, however, lies the strength of the Church and the Tories, and the prospect this holds out to them for the next generation, we leave them to ruminate over. To us it is full of enchanting hope. We regret to learn that though wheat may now be imported free of duty, there is scarcely any to bring in. The Baltic and the Elbe are of course close;: against us, and we apprehend that nearly all we can get from the Black Sea has already been obtained, or is on its way hither. Many of the countries on the Mediterranean obtain a supply from that quarter, and it enhances our apprehensions to learn to-day that the general scarcity affects Sicily and Naples, from which exportation has been prohibited. Our readers will find the ordinance in another part of The Sun, and it will afford them no pleasure to learn, from other countries being as badly off as England, that they cannot supply her. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) We insert in another column a letter addressed by one of its members to the Committee of the Church rate Abolition Society, on his seceding from that body. We leave the letter to speak for itself ; it tells its own story plainly and forcibly, and furnishes a key to some facts about which a mystery has for some time hung. It cannot be denied that the abolition of Church rates is an object of enormous difficulty, while the whole power of the Church is arrayed against it. The only means of accomplishing the point are for the Dissenters to act with energetic and simultaneous force ; and we cannot get rid of an impression that they have failed to do so. Especially for the last two years there has been manifested by their recognised leaders and organs no such earnestness of purpose as would compel or even encourage any Ministry to take up the cudgels for them, or to provoke increased hos tility from a powerful opposition. It would seem, at first sight, essential to any well conducted plan, that a central body should direct the general course of operation ; and this would really be the case but for certain influences eminently injurious, and almost inevitable. Among the leading London Dissenters are some gentlemen variously connected with the Ministry, their dependants, or their Parlia mentary supporters, and whose counsels could but impede the course of Church-rate agitation. Others again, who are really in earnest, and whose piety, or learning, or wealth has placed them prominently before the public, naturally believe that by the mass of society the character of Dissent is identified with theirs, and entertain a morbid apprehension of compromising their "respectability," which in political conflict, cripples their energy, and makes them falter at every untried step. We have sufficient experience of public life to be assured, without individual knowledge of the fact, that in this, as in every other organization for public improvement, men would intrude themselves whose sole object is the emolument or the glory of conducting its affairs—men to be found in every community, whose business is to pursue rather than to eradicate the evils on which they exist. We must add that the locality of a Church-rate Abolition Committee is unfavourably chosen which enables the Ministry to obtain immediate intelligence of all their deliberations, and by the Hushai whom any Ministry would, of course, find or send among them, to mar their counsels and defeat their plans. No, the Dissenters must act for themselves in this matter—there is now no other subject on which the materials for agitation are so widely scattered, or so ready to the hand of every man who wishes to use them. Let such as are aggrieved, use the facility which the law affords to impede the laying and collecting of Church -rates, and bring before the public every in stance of ecclesiastical oppression, and the Church will soon be foremost among the claimants of a reform in the law of Church-rates. The Paris Journals of Thursday announce that at a meeting of the Municipal Council of that capital, held the day before, great dissatisfaction was expressed at the manner in which the Government expended the 20,000 f. voted to assist in paying the expenses of the fnneral of Marshal LOBAU. Several Members of the Council complained that not only had the Govern ment not contributed any sum, as it had engaged to do, but that even the amount voted by the Municipality had been misapplied. The Archbishop of PARIS, whose zeal in promoting the sordid interests of his order must be edifying to the members of the Hierarchy in every part of the world, was stated to have rated the importance of his presence at the funeral at a sum so exorbitant as to threaten the absorption of the entire 20,000 francs, for ecclesiastical purposes only. This was not well relished by the Council, the more especially as some Members complained that several of the priests had not comported themselves with that meekness which would convince the Municipality that they were solicitous to obtain the city cash only that they might distribute it in alms among the indigent. A letter addressed to the Council by the Solicitor-General recommending the pro secution of the Editor of the Charivari for some laughable comments upon the vote of 20,000 francs by the City of Paris, to pay the funeral expenses of Marshal LOBAU, was read in Council, but to the credit of that body rejected with contempt. On Wednesday the Editor of the Temps was fined 2,000 francs, and sentenced to a month's imprison ment, for publishing a false report of the proceedings at a trial instituted against three other Journals by the sons of CASIMIR PERIER, for a libel upon the me mory of their father. There is no political news of interest in the Paris Journals of Thursday. They have all articles on the Hollando-Belgic question, and t h e quest i ons which w ill particularly occupy the Chambers, but they are too vague and problematical to interest an English reader. The Spanish Papers received this morning an nounce another victory obtained over the Carlists by Colonel PEZUEL A, near Valencia, for an official account of which we refer to an extract from the Madrid Gazette of the 6th inst., which will be found in an other column. The rebels had 400 killed, besides 200 made prisoners, and the loss of 800 muskets and THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1838. the plunder of their Valencian expedition. Th Papers also confirm the Christino account of Gene ral Don DIEGO DE LEON'S defeat of eight Carlist battalions near Lesma on the 4th inst., with the loss of 120 men killed, exclusive of the wounded and pri soners. General CORDOVA has been ordered to Cadiz to be tried by a Court-martial for his recent conduc. at Seville. He has, however, been favoured with a despatch from the REGENT, in which her MAJESTY graciously assumes his entire innocence. Whether thiS is meant as a Royal hint to the members of the military tribunal, we shall not take upon us to de termine ; but it looks very like it. Spain continues without a Government. This is said to be attributable to the intrigues of ESPA RTERO, who will have. no Ministry but one composed of his own creatures. BREAD.—Now that the Corn-laws are in their grinding operation either stinting the people of their daily bread, or altogether depriving them of it, it is impor tant that the public should he informed that, by Act of Parliament, every baker is required to keep scales and weights in his shop, and, on the request of the purchaser, he is to weigh the bread in his presence. Neglecting or refusing to comply with this regulation subjects the baker to a fine. IRREGULARITY OF THE MAILS.--WC see in many of the country papers constantly repeated complaints of the irregularity of the mails. The Shrewsbury Chronicle says the mails from London to this town have become so irregular in their arrival, that on some occasions they do not reach our Post•ofice by mid-day, instead of hall•-past seven in the morning. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday evening, at the Castle, Greenhill-rents, West Smithfield, on the body of John James Wynn, aged twenty-one years. Mrs. Sarah Wynn, of Greenhill rents, deposed that the deceased, who was her son, and a very sober, industrious young man, had never comp!ained of illness tifl about a week ago, when he said he had a pain in his chest, from which, however, he soon recovered. Shortly after nine o'clock last Tuesday night, after havine , eaten a very hearty supper, the deceased went to bed, and about ten minutes after witness heard him groan violently. On going to him she found him strug gling, and in a state of insensibility. She sent, for Mr. Fortescue, a surgeon, who speedily attended, and at tempted to bleed him, but without effect ; be was quite dead. Mr. Fortescue has since opened the deceased's head, and had declared that death had been occasioned by serous apoplexy. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God." [Had the "very hearty supper" no effect in has tening the melancholy fate of the deceased?] TilE GREEN PA RK.—A Correspondent of the Chronicle has undertaken the needless task of suggesting that " a proper gravelled foot-path" be constructed for the accomodation of the public. Similar suggestions have been made over and over again, but in vain. It would seem that some persons in office, although of course desiring that they themselves should live for ever, care but little how many of the million die off from wet and cold. The Com missioners of Woods and Forests are said to be in some sort, as regards the state of the Park, auxiliaries to the Corn-laws in killing off a redundant population. If the public health, to say nothing of the public convenience, were duly regarded, we should have good sound dry foot-paths ; or, at least, one along the great thoroughfare from the Pa lace to Spring-Gardens. Last night an adjourned Coroner's Inquest was held in the vestry-room of St. John's Church, Horselydown, on the body of a female unknown, who was found drowned in the :River Thames off St. George's-stairs. The de ceased had evidently been respectably connected. There being a wound over the left temple and across the bridge of the nose, and not the slightest evidence by what means the deceased came into the water, the Coroner suggested an adjournment, in order to give time for the friends to come forward. 'Waller, the beadle, informed the Coroner that upwards of twenty persons had applied to see the body, but none of them had recognised the deceased as their missing friend. The clothes of the unfortunate woman had been washed since the jury last met, and the initials " E. E " in red marking cotton had been discovered on her linen. The Coroner said this circumstance might lead to a discovery as to who the deceased was. The inquiry was, therefore, adjourned till Friday next. Our readers may recollect cur narration of a fearful attempt at murder, committed in July last, by a person named Pickering, on two of his companions, who had been employed in burning charcoal in a coppice near Buildwas, called the Sapling Coppice. The two men were sleeping in a hovel, when the prisoner suddenly fell upon them, and with a stake beat them senseless, and left them to all ap pearance dead, after robbing them of their money and clothes. Pickering immediately absconded ; but was sus pected of having gone into Gloucestershire ; and notice of the outrage, with a description of his person, were forwarded to the police of that county, and last week they succeeded in capturing him in a pit in the Forest of Dean. He was immediately transferred to Buildwas, and identified, and now remains in our jail for trial at the next Assizes.— Shrewsbury Chronicle. On Wednesday morning, between 7 and 8 o'clock, 'qrs. Reynolds, a lady residing at No. 11, Orkett-street, Portman-market, on getting out of bed, discovered her in fant son, ten months old, lying by her side quite dead, hav ing during the night unfortunately overlaid the child. A TOTAL SPLIT.—The Pilo? of last Wednesday declares, in the most emphatic manner, " that unless there be an infusion of liberality into the Cabinet, affairs will shortly terminate in a total split between the present Government and the Irish people.' NOT SO BAD AS EXPECTED.—In the melo-drama of the Caravan, a dog named Carlo played a principal cha racter. Dignum, the singer, was also in the same piece. One evening the latter went up to Sheridan, and, with a grave face, informed him that he had some bad news to relate. Sheridan eagerly inquired what it was; to which Dignum answered, that he felt himself so hoarse as to be unable to get through the songs. Sheridan, seizing him by the hand, rejoined, " My friend, you have relieved my mind of a weight ; I thought the dog had been taken ill." An adjourned inquest was held on Thursday at New ington, on the body of Blissey White, a young woman, a cook in the service of a gentleman in the neighbourhood, and who was found drowned in a large water-tank in the garden. Nothing could be elicited as to how the deceased came into the water. It was proved that she was an excel lent servant, perfectly satisfied with and happy in her situa tion ; that she exhibited her usual cheerful and happy dis position up to the moment when she left the house of her master on Monday morning to go into the garden ; and that nothing had taken place between her and the young man to whom she had been attached to disturb her mind or annoy her in the slightest degree. It was therefore considered unlikely that she had destroyed herself. The Coroner's impression was, that in passing either up or down the gar den she had heard a noise of some sort in the adjoining premises, and curiosity having prompted her to look over to see what it was, she had got on the edge of the tank and accidentally dropped in. The jurors coincided in this opi nion, and returned a verdict of " Found drowned." A meeting was held at the Strand Theatre yester day morning, in aid of the formation of a General Theatri cal Fund Association. Mr. Webster, the lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, was in the chair, and several actors connected with the different theatres were present. The secretary, Mr. Ilalford, stated that the object of the asso ciation was to provide a fund for the support of aged or de cayed members of the theatrical profession ; and the regu lations which had been prepared by a Committee for the government of the association were read, and appeared to meet with general approval, One of these regulations pro vides that members shall be admitted without any restric tion as to age. A letter was read from Mr. Macready, in which that gentleman expressed his desire to promote the objects of the association. A similar communication was made from Mr. Osbahlistone , and alsa f rom Mr. Pritchard, the several manager provincialof h the Edinburgh Speeches Theatre, and the managers were m a d e , an d of resolutions agreed to, in favour of the objects of the meet ing. Several ladies were present. In consequence of the difference of opinion existing among the leading members of the medical profession as to the quantity of carbonic acid gas that may with safety he inhaled—a question which has arisen from the recent oc currence, 1 1 i r d S , t a . n Michael'sdEverett are Church, pursuing a r naheir es of experi ments l —Professors Golding at Guy's and Middlesex Hospitals, under the sanc tion of the Westminster Medical Society, with a view to elucidate the subject. These experiments are very elabo rately conducted, a quantity of mathematical apparatus having been constructed for the purpose, and trials being made on several of the inferior animals. It appears that the Professors have already arrived at the conclusion that one part of carbonic acid gas in twelve of atmospheric air is sufficiently powerful to destroy any kind of animal life. This is directly contrary to the general opinion, but the results of their investigations aro about to be fully l a id before the public. A misunderstanding has arisen between the As sistant Poor-law Commissioner - and the Board of Guardians as to the mode of administering relief to the poor of Yar mouth, in consequence of which the Board, at its meeting on Thursday, passed the following resolution :—" That if the Guardians of the parish are not to have any discretion in affo r di ng re li e f t o th e p oo r, either out-door, in -do or , or i n clothing, the Guardians :NM not attend to the business of the parish, but the Poor Law Commissioners must attend to it themselves." Ili? , MARKETS.-(THIS DAY-) COVENT-GARDEN. Supplies of most kinds of Vegetables were very good to day, but prices are rather high. Owing to their being so few gentry in town, the demand is comparatively slack ; and for the top kind of fruits there is but little demand. Plants, 3s. tc 3;. 6d. per doz. ; Asparagus, 7s. to 93. per bundle ; Celery, 4d. to 6d. ; Onions, Is. to 2s. per sieve ; Carrots. ss. to ss. 6d. per doz. bunches; Brocoli, Is. 3d. to Is. 9d. per bundle ; Turnips, 2d. per bunch ; Oranges, ss. to 10s. per 100; Apples, 4s. to 12s. per bushel ; Cucumbers, 4s to 6s. per brace; Cabbages, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per doz. ; Spinach, Is. 6d. to 2s. per sieve; French Beans, 53. to 7s. per 100. CHANCERY COUR:F.-(I:411S OA .) THE GRAND JUNCTION CANAL COMPANY V. LIMES. The arguments in this case, which were part heard yester day, were resumed and concluded to-day. The case came before the Court in the nature of an appeal from the decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor granting an injunction restraining the defendant from doing any act to interfere with the navigation of the canal. The short facts of the ease were as follows :—Part of the canal belonging to the plaintiffs ran through copyhold land situated in the Manor of Rickmansworth, of which the defendant, Mr. Dimes, was the Lord. Upon the death of the last holder of the land in consequence of no party claiming to be admitted, the defendant proceeded to take possession of the land, upon which the plaintiffs asserted that they had a freehold in the property in question. Pro ceedings at law took place, upon which the right of the defendant was fully established. Propositions were then made by the defendant to the Company for their continu ing in possession of the land, but they were rejected as being exorbitant. The defendant then placed bars across the canal, for the purpose of preventing the navigation ; to restrain him from doing which the injunction was granted in the Court below, which was now sought to be dissolved. The Lunn CHANCELLOR refused to dissolve the injunc tion, as by doing so he would in effect give the lord the absolute possession of the land. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE MAYOR AND CORPORA- TTON OF BOSTON. Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE replied to-day in this case. The VICE-CHANCELLOR postponed giving judgment. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) SADLER V. WHITMORE. This was an action brought by a linen•manufacturer car rying on business in Belfast, to recover the sum of 1251. from the assignee of a bankrupt named Richardson, who carried on business in the Quadrant, The linens were to be de livered by the plaintiff's London agent, on sale or return ; but, on the arrival of the goods on the premises, it was as certained that in the interim Richardson had become bankrupt, and that the assignees had taken' possession of all the property which was left. A demand was made upon the assignees to deliver up the goods, which they refused. Lord DENMAN left it to the Jury to say whether the defendants were justified in seizing the property sent to the bankrupt's shops on such terms of sale. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1251. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) ITEINHELLER V. NEWTON. This was an action brought to recover damages for a breach of contract for the delivery of a quantity of spelter. The plaintiff was a Polish merchant in the City of London, who had large dealings in spelter (or zinc), who had exten sive conuectionslvith the manufacturers of the commodity in Germany, and with the merchants at Hamburgh, through whom the commodity was principally obtained. The de fendant was also a merchant of London, and had contracted to supply the plaintiff with 1,300 tons of spelter before the Ist of September, 1837. The contract had not been com pleted, and the plaintiff sought to recover damages for the loss he alleged himself to have sustained in consequence of that failure. Mr. KELLY was for the defendant, Mr. Serjeant WILDE for the plaintiff. On the part of the defendant (on whom it seemed the issue lay), it was asserted that the non-completion of the contract, was entirely owing to the fraudulent and dishon ourable conduct of the plaintiff. It was affirmed, that the plaintiff having ascertained that the defendant had other contracts in hand, caused it to be reported to the Ham burgh merchants, that the defendant was bound by contract to deliver 4,000 tons of spelter, (a quantity equal to the whole trade of Great Britain, in the article,) by the first of September. The consequence of which was, that the price speedily rose to such a degree, as would alone have pre vented defendant from fulfilling his contract, except at the risk of utter ruin. But it was further alleged that these reports had so injured the defendant's credit, that the spel ter merchants refused to contract with him, believing that he was embarrassed in a speculation which would quickly involve him in bankruptcy. The evidence is necessarily of such a nature, as will oc cupy. most likely, the entire day. EXCHEQUER COURT-(THIS DAY). LEVERITT V. HILL AND OTHERS. In this case the plaintiff was a lighterman, who was com pelled to bring his action, in order to recover 121., as com pensation for damage done to a skiff belonging to him by the steam-boat Ruby, belonging to the defendants. After hearing evidence on both sides, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 71. This being the last case on the list, the Court adjourned. EQUITY EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY) ROTHSCHILD V. THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. Mr. SIMPKINSON (with whom was Mr. RouPELL) said in this case the plaintiffs were Lionel Rothschild, Anthony Rothschild, and Nathaniel Rothschild, and the defendant was the Queen of Portugal ; and the bill prayed a disco very from the Queen respecting the matters mentioned in the bill ; it also prayed a commission to examine witnesses in Portugal, and for an injunction in the meantime to re strain the proceedings in an action at law commenced by the Queen of Portugal against Messrs. Rothschild. The bill stated that on the 29th of June, 1837, the Queen of Portugal, by her agents in this country, entered into an agreement with the plaintiffs for a loan of 88,680/.35. l I d. to pay the dividends on certain loans, in consideration of which, agents for the defendant agreed forthwith to deliver to them bills of exchange on the public treasury of Portu gal to that amount, to be paid on the 15th November, the• next ensuing, guaranteeing their payment when due ; and, as a security, they agreed to deposit with Messrs. Roths child, Regency Bonds, to the amount of 400,0001., which, in case the bills should not be paid, they were em powered to sell, and out of the proceeds to satisfy the bills. The bill then stated the payment of the amount agreed upon, the delivery of the bills, and the special bonds ; that the bills were presented on the 15th of No vember, 1837, and dishonoured ; whereupon the defendant became personally liable for the amount to the plaintiffs ; that subsequently to that time the amount advanced, and the interest thereon, was duly paid by money arising from the sale of the bonds, and that there appeared to be due to her Majesty the sum of 807/. Os. Ild., and interest thereon, making altogether 832/., which sum the plaintiffs had paid into the Court of Queen's Bench, in an action brought against them by her Majesty, in which she claimed the sum of 2,084/. ls. Id. The sum of 1,2771. Os. 2d. was now in dispute, the Queen eontendiag that Messrs. Rothschild had no right to charge interest on the 88,000/. after the 15th of November, when they might have repaid themselves by selling the bonds in their possession. The bill charged various things against the Queen, principally that there were divers persons in Portugal who were able to prove the matters stated, and whose testimony was ma terial to the plaintiffs on the trial ; but that she refused to allow any time for producing such testimony, and intended immediately to proceed to trial, unless restrained by the in junction of this Court from so doing. To this bill the Queen had put in a demurrer, on two grounds—first, that the plaintiffs were not entitled to make the Queen, who was a sovereign power, a defendant in a bill ; and, secondly, that they had not stated such a case as to entitle them to• a discovery, Sir F. PoLLocx and Mr. RICHARDS appeared on the other side. The arguments had not been concluded at the time of our going to press. THE FUNDS -C BRITISH Bank Stock 2033 g 3 per Cent. Red 92 3 per Cent. Ccus 34z per Cent as, per Cent. Red, 100% New 3Y, per Cent 10134 Long Annuities to expire Jan. 186 I Oct. 1850 Jan. 1860 HUNGERFORD MARKET. The market presented to-day a rather busy appearance, and the supplies were much in average. Meat—Beef has advanced, and may be quoted at Bd. to 9d. for good ; Mutton, 74d. to Bid. ; Veal, Bd. to 91d. ; Pork, 74-d. to 81d. Fish in good supply, and much as last prices. 'Vegetables are on the advance as winter approaches. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS As Christmas approaches the Meat Market assumes a more showy appearance. The supply to. day was good, and so was the demand ; prices unaltered, except Beef, which is a little higher. Beef, 3s. to 4s. ; Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 4s. ; Veal, 3s. Sd. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. ; Irish, as. to 3s. Bd. Game and Poultry in large supply, and trade dull ; prices higher; for each-Geese, 4s. to 7s. 6d. ; Pigeons, Bd. to 10d. ; Hares, 3s. to 4s. ; Plovers, Is. ; Leverets, ls. 6d. to 3s. ; Pheasants, 3s. to 4s. ; Fowls, 23. 6d. to ss. 6d.: Ca pons, 4s. to 7s. 6d. ; Ducks, 2s. to 3s. ; Grouse, 2s. 6d. to 35.; Turkeys, ss. to 20s. Eggs, 9s. to 1 Is. per 120. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies to-day were good, and prices much as before. Turbot, 7s. to 255. ; Soles, 91 to 3s. 61 per pair ; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. each ; Cod, 2s. to 10s. and 12s. There were also a few Mackarel at market. Whitings, 3d. to 6d.:cach ; Had docks, sd. and 7d. to Bd. and Is. each. HAY MARKET. Hay and Straw were in but moderate supply. Clover more abundant. The demand fair. Hay, 80s. to 1155. ; Clover, 80s. to 120 - s. ; Straw, 323. to 385. per load. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. to-day is 58s. 6d. to 595. 91, and Town Tallow was 633. 61 as quoted by the trade last night. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE COLONIAL MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Our daily reports will have prepared the reader to expect that but very little business has been done, and the market wholly without interest. More has been done in Sugar than in any other Commodity, 2,000 hhds. of which have been sold. We quote no variation in the prices of Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Rice, Cocoa, Spices, Indigo, Cotton, or Ruin. The i.nports on the whole have been light, the exports in significant, and the deliveries moderate. For next wee!. there is but very little business advertised. HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. By the quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, to the 18th of September, it appears that the circulation is less by 431,0001; the deposits more by 84,000/. ; the securities less by 464,000/. ; and the bullion more by 23,0001. Arrivals this morning —French mail ; also mails from Lisbon and Gibraltar, by the Liverpool steamer—sailed from Gibraltar 3d December, Cadiz 4th, Lisbon 7th, Opor to Bth, Vigo 9th. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 14.—There has been a great falling off in the extent of business doing this week, as compared with the transactions of the several weeks preceding, and the spirit of speculation has very much abated, leaving the market in a comparatively dell state, and rather easier prices for American descriptions, which may be had in many instances, particularly the com mon qualities, id. to Fl. under the highest point of last week. The stock being held in so few hands we can scarcely expect that reaction in prices which would probably have taken place had the holders been more numerous. Brazil, Egyptian, and Sea Island are again rather dearer. Spe culators have taken 5,000 bales American, 1,000 Maran hams, 500 Surats ; Exporters-200 American. The chief of the speculative purchases were made on Friday evening, and Saturday last. The sales to-day are from three to four thousand bales. Gibraltar Chronicles received to the 4th December, they are, as usual, not of so late a date from the theatre of war in Spain, as received by the French Expresses. The intelli gence from Lisbon is not of much importance. Sonic petty encounters have taken place between the troops and the Guerillas in the south, which, according to the official Gazelles have been to the advantage of the former. It appears that the Queen is much distressed for money, and she has been obliged to discount her monthly pay tickets at high rates. All was tranquil at Lisbon. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 93-8-4 for the Account ; Reduced, 92i 4, with scarce a bargain doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 64 66 ; India Bonds, 62 64 ; Bank Stock, 2021 203 ; India Stock, for opening, 2611 2621. In the Foreign Market the prices are much the same as they closed at. Spanish Active, 164 ; Portuguese, 291 ; Three per Cents., 191- ; Brazilian, 771 ; Belgian, 991 100 ; Colombian, 2.51 26 ; Mexican, 221 23 ; Dutch Two and-a-I-lalf rather lower ; closed at 54f-, ; at present 54 .+ 1 ; Five per Cents. lower, closed 1006 ; now 1001 I. The Portuguese Ministry I with the Conference Compan: ( 7 50,0001. sterling), subject t Nave contracted another loan y for 3,000 contos de reis ,o the approval of the Cortes. . _ PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 202)4 India Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. 92M/4 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent — Old Annuities —. Ditto Red. lOO% 100 New Ditto - New 3 tin t per Cent lOl%, 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditt0....... ........ 500 Jan. 5, 1860 14 13-16%, Ditto Small 6l 66 pm, Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1860 ---Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 188.) — Bank Stock for Account — April 5, 188(1 — India Stock for Account — Jan. 5, 1870 —l Consols for Account 93%N PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds i Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 77 6.0 Ditto Accoun` 2.314% 9 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account Chilian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds 23% Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 23% j Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —f —c. Ditto B on d s , 1825 — . 4 per cent. Ditto Account , 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —i Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account I Dutch, 2)4 per cent. SM4 Ditto, 6 per Cent. 1 Ditto Account — Ditto Account Neapolitan — I Ditto Account — PRICES QF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share, Great Western Railway Company ............ ......... 65 75)4 Brighton Railway London and Greenwich railway C0mpany......... 25 IN London and Southampton (New) Railway 2O 39% iii , nchestor and Birmingham Railway lO 105, Colonial Bank Ditto Scrip London and Westminster Bank 2O .C 8 23M% T 3 COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam...... 2 U l2 4% Antwerp... Hamburg. A1t0na..... Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Ditto 3 Ms. 25 75 Marseilles. 25 SO 6NGE YESTERDAY. Gibraltar 4B Leghorn 314 Genoa 25 85 Milan 3l Venice aR Naples 19% Palermo per oz. 118 Lisbon ..... ..... ...... 534 rto 534 Op 13ourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 152 3 4 Bahia 27 Petersbutgh, ruble .3 Us. IC% Buenos Ayres Berlin Vienna, effective 8 2M: 10 8 Philadelphia 46 frieste ditto lO 10 PRICE OF BULLION, PER 02. 111adrld 36% Portugal (4old, coin .E 0 0 0 Cadiz.... Bdboa . Barcelona l6 New Dollars 0 4 101 4. &vine 56 ISilver. bars, standard 0 5 0 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 13. 3 per Cent. Consols 95%, Gratid Canal Del; s. 6 per cent. 93% 90% Ditto, 4 per cent. per Cent. Stoc k i t t o Reduced Hibernian Bank. Ditto New, 1 830 :11,', per Cent. De bentures City Debentures, 4 per cent.... Bank al Stoana ck l Stock — Ballast Office Debentures,4 par -- Roy C G ra nd Canal Stock PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Das. 8. Bills. Money. t. Schuld. Sch. , 4 p er cent.lo3 102% PrUSEiall E n glish Lean, 1830,4 per cent. 102% 102% 14b:change on London, three months ... 6 21% —Prussian State Gazette. Dm. 10. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, DEC. ; two months, 13 4. CHRISTIANIA. Dac. 1.-I•hree months, 5 1.1%. ST. PETEESBURGH, Nov. 30.—Three months, 11%. STOCKHOLM, Disc. 4.—Two months, 12 8. —.Hamburg Papers, Dec. 11. HALF -PAST ONE. It has been a very quiet morning for speculating in the British Funds. The speculators are waiting for the King of France's speech, which, we u n d ers t an d , ta k es place on Monday next, and in all probability will be in London by Tuesday evening. It is a document anxiously looked for by the Dutch and Belgian merchants. We have no further arrivals to the present hour from any quarter, consequently there is a very great d eart h of news in the City. Consols have been during the morning 93-11 for the Account ; Reduced reached 924 ; at present 92k. M oney continues rather in demand for commercial affairs, at the rate of about 3 to 3} per cent. ; in the Stock-Exchange it is more easy. Exchequer Bills, 64 ; India Bonds, 62 64 ; Bank Stock, 2021. Government brokers purchased about five to six thou sand Three-and-a-Half Reduced, at par. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active, 164 ; Portuguese receded to 281 29 ; Three per Cents., 18 19 ; Belgian, 99i ; Brazilian, 77} ; Colum bian, 25A- ; Mexican, 221 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 54i In the Share Market scarce anything doing. Great Western, 101 prem. ; Brighton, 3i- dis. T.H.ILEE 0' CL OCM Combs fer the Account : 93. 4. LOSING PRICES I FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2%d 64 pm. Ditto 51.} 66 pm • . - Ditto 5001 66 pm. Bank Stock for Act. Ir.dia Stock for , q Consols for Opg FOREIG FUNDS Portuguese Ronds, 5 per cent BJ Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent — 'Ditto, Metallic 'Spanish, 5 per cent rg4 Ditto, Consolidated French, 5 per cent. .......... .. —f. —c Exchange French, 3 per cent Dutch, 2% per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. ICO% '(CLOSING PRICE OF SIIARES.-(THIS DAY.) Great Western Railway,. >. 75% London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway London and Greenwich Railway lfl% London and So urt .r,.;.1,p10il Railway (New) 294 Manchester and Birmingham Railway lOl4 Ditto Ditto Extension Midland Counties Railway 34% Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent. 99U Brazilian Bonds 26% Buenos Ayr. s, 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent Colomb.an, 6 per cent. 23►4 Ditto, 1824 2sy, Danish, 3 per cent 74% Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 23 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent To MAKE THE BEST VARNISH.—Take of the bits of amber, reduced to fine powder, one p oun d, an d me l t it in a crucible over the fire ; this done, p our it on an i ron plate, and when it is cold, powder it again, and mix it with drying oil, and return it to the crucible ; then add spirit of turpentine enough to dissolve the whole, acid keep it fluid. With this you may varnish wood, metals, and prints, and nothing will hurt them.—Penny Mechanic. LL•? k ; filo DEAL, Dec. 13.—Wind N.E. moderate.—Arrived from the River and sailed the Severn, Wake, for Calcutta ; Red man, Flint, Trinidad ; Armistead, Fernandez. Cadiz ; Sove reign, (transport,) Grant, Westward. Arrived the Vrase Maria, Dom, from Rotterdam, and sailed for Surinam. Sailed the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind E. N. E.—Arrived the Quebec, Hebard, from London, and sailed for New York ; Enterprise, Green, and Kingston, Potter, Waterford ; Rove hence, Duke, Dublin. Off port the Concordia, from Dant.. zic ; Express, Goodhill, Antwerp. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 14.—Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the Dn. rade, Delan, from Bordeaux. FALMOUTH, DEC. 13.—Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Liver pool, (steamer,) Brooks, from Gibraltar, left 3d instant, Ctdis 4th, Lisbon 7th, Oporto Bth, Vigo 9th; Mumnira, Waterford. Sailed the Ornen, Smith, for Rio Janeiro; Liverpool, (steamer,) Brook, London. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 14.—Light, variable airs, and bezY weather.—Arrived the Commerce, Bristow, from St. Johns, New Brunswick ; Ann Liffey, Lister, Pictou ; Intrepid, Serve' gal. OEI port, the Perseverance, from Honduras ; Algonquin, Philadelphia S Robertson, Quebec. Sailed the Appleton, Evans, for Jamaica ; Rival, Sutherland, St. John's ; Chase, Powle, Rochford ; Malaga, Havannah ; William Turner, Rosh:, Calcutta ; Huskinson, Tastier, Africa; Alert, Suthon, Bahia; Lucy, Stymudes, Trieste ; Marmora, Barnes, Constantinopl e- COWES, DEC. 14.—Wind N.E. by N.—Sailed the Black River packet, Wright, for Jamaica; Eliza, Gallon, Demerara; Augusta, Dublin ; Harlequin, Constantinople. MARGATE, DEC. 14.—Arrived the King George, Denni° , from Ostend ; Ury, Claxton, Rouen. RAMSGATE, DEC. 14.—Sailed the Neptunus, for the HOW nah ; Jacoba Catherine, London. BRISTOL, DEC. 13. Arrived the West, Farr, Honduras. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 14.—Arrived Two Brothers, Cork. HOLYHEAD, DEC. 13.—Arrived off port, the Cumberland. from Quebec. SHIELDS, DEC. 13.—Arrived - the Emily, Reimer, fro Dantzic ; Britannia, Gibson, Amsterdam • Liverpool, Da l ' seri, Honfleur ; Margaret, Gibson, Memel ; Amazon, Rob.. son, ditto. DUBLIN, DEC. 12.—Arrived the Yanders, Lowther, frou l Antwerp; Walburton, Jenkins, Rouen. CORK, DEC. 12. Arrived the Cherry, Godfrey, London. KiNosrowN.—Arrived the Wilman, Legget, from Deme rara ; Protheroe, Ralfe, London. IVIARYPORT, DEC. 12.—Off port, Ocean, Wilkinson, Quebec. ABERDEEN, DEC. 12.—Arrived the Henry Holland, Reid , from Riga. PENZANCE, DEC. 12.—Arrived the Forsocket, Dahl, &On Brury. Off port the Brighton, Roberts, from Waterford. Sailed the Adur, Grebo, for Trinidad. HULL, DEC. 13.—Wind light breezes from the North war —Arrived the Jane, Tasher, and Loyal Briton, Storey, frogs Quebec; Marmion, Smith, Copenhagen; William, Rigi Ann Guthrie, Atkinson, Stanton, Casely, and Apollo , R eiter' dam; Fairy, Poskett, Dunkirk. Sailed the Commodore. Campbell, for Leghorn. DUNGENESS, DEC. 14.—Arrived off port the Victoria Shields, for Rio Janeiro. SALCOMBE, DEC. 13.—Arrived the Agenoria, from Londnr4 Prince Regent, Pures, from Quebec, arrived at Nevvivr" decks swept, foremast sprung. Perseverance, Adams, from Messina to New York, is 011 shore near Tarrisa, and must discharge. Transit (steamer), from Lisbon, bound to Madeira, put Wl° Gibraltar with damage; Catherine, Palmer, from Rotterdam, bound to Batavia, Wi th loss of bulwarks, arrived at Lisbon. out The Courier, Lorton, from Louston, bound to Africa , into Lisbon, with loss of bulwarks. The Wilhelmina Maria, from Amsterdam to Surinam , has put into Lisbon leaky, find must discharge. • & .r The Ringwood, Smith, from Oporto and Lisbon, leaky, c bound to Newfoundlard. The A valon, Ritchie, from Newfoundland to Oporto ana Lisbon, decks swept. par t The Convivial, Hamptor, to Lisbon, decks swept, and of the cargo thrown overboard. The City of Kingston (steamer), from London to Bab i3 ' put into Lisbon with loss of paddle-boxes, &c. ia, The Banca, Teu Ham, from Rotterdam, bound to Bata° was towed into Lisbon with loss of foremast The Sappho, Bassett, from Plymouth . to Seville, W as wrecked near Figuera on the 24th ult. ; crew saved. 4t h The Mass, Matzen, was wrecked near Lisbon on the 2 ult. ; crew drowned. The Marquis of Douglas gave a splendid bell to the family tenantry on the Isle of Arran, at the princir: inn, on Friday last. A letter from an eye-witness info rO, us that " the Marquis wore the magnificent costum e of !'0 Jl( Gordan clan ; and as for his dancing, the fair rustic be of the isle declare his Lordship to be the best dancer 07_ land o' cakes' ever produced. A party of gentlemen.; siting the family at Broderick Castle accompanied the No Lord, and participated in the gay scene. ROBBERIES.-On Tuesday morning, from the r e : sidence of Mr. Banister, 3, Huntley-street , 'Gower-stre et , t i; circular rifle-green cloth cloak, of a blueish tint, lined v r , l `., silk, and sable-minx collar. Supposed by a man about years of age, middle height, and red face. On Wednest'a morning, from % the house of Mr. Bryant, 3, Montague-str, to Westminster-road, two silver dessert-spoons, three 0, table-spoons, four ditto tea-spoons, two ditto tea-spoons °, J. fashioned, marked "A. 5.," and a pair of sugar -tong`' A. S." Suspicion attaches to a sweep.• Yesterday morning the wife of a respectable tr a . des ; man, named Plant, upwards of sixty years of age, res in Worton-street, Paddington, was discovered by her J. band suspended by a table-cloth to the rail of the bedsjaied She was immediately cut down, and a surgeon was , ca ho at in, who tried to restore animation by bleeding, but sli t ",tor avail. The unfortunate woman had been labouring tt ri , be an unhappy delusion for some time past that she shoulei reduced to the station of a pauper in a workhouse. a , Two respectably-dressed women, sisters, wer e ° dr mined yesterday at Guildhall on a charge of baying o f frauded, of sums varying from 3s. to Bs., a nuraberr st. housekeepers and other servants in the vicinity of St' Paul's Church-yard, under the pretence that the sat° s ere due on pretended parcels of fruit ordered by their re s P to tive masters. The plan adopted by the prisoners wag call at times when they knew the party to whom til, c to cel purported to be addressed was from home, an d ti f i - dir represent themselves as sent from some fruiterer' s at -00 tance. They had succeeded in very many eas es ' ges' parcels, when opened, usually contained a few sour era ° t he At first only one of the sisters was charged, but whe° se' other appeared to prove an alibi on the part Of tbet the cused, she herself was recognised, and being pla ce d bar, various cases in which it was alleged she bau t able concerned, were gone into. She said she was a resP ec oro woman, and could refute the charges. Both prisoners remanded till this day. hie' ) Yesterday the workmen removed the hoard nciii% has been for some time placed round the statue o,`"bing be re d ova tChheasrtloens,eawt work Charinge-rcross, for o the Arms P urpoaserc sc o_fe t y the pedestal. The old pimp i s removed, and one °L description erected on the north side of the statue. eto rs Yesterday, at the meeting of the Board of D i c re o dea and Guardians of the parish of Marylebone, gr i T a Lo t ° brought forward a motion to the effect, that, in adds Ens regaling the paupers in the workhouse with the 01 " doi , lish fare, roast beef and plum-pudding, on Christen ether they should receive a plentiful supply . of porter, ti-a tae with tea and sugar, on that occasion. There w ere e onl ea workhouse of St. Marylebone not less than 300 no r P ut the advanced to such an age, that he had no doub t b d t hen' latter articles would be highly acceptable, and ale °. beet t a great deal of gratification. The motion having seconded, was carried without a dissentient voice. ch ore' A man named James Lennard, residing a t o feel‘' rell, met with a most shocking accident on 'ruesdaY ble°11) from the burstingof a gun, by which part of his nose w a . s , it 15 off, and both his eyes seriously injured, feared will be entirely lost. His face is also O ther greatly disfigured.—Wilts Independent. a M i. Dr. V. Beyne, Prussian High Chancellor an . 0 t he i n stant , nister of State, died at Berlin on the Bth 74th year of his age. o ' c l o ck , Yesterday morning, between eight and n ine s iding a respectable middle-aged lady, named Harris, red jr , be, Marylebone-lane, St. Marylebone, was found dea ea rca bed. On retiring to bed the previous night sbe aP t P t here in her usual health and spirits. Sinoe MondaYla,s death ,a have been no less than fourteen cases of s udden 'L e one of oio tl:e metropolis. sclaY't SERIOUS TITHE AFFRAY.—Last W ednc ot Correspondent informs us that there was a se f iz p ur ubl i n fi i non-payment of tithes, at Pieldstown, county 0 - c e - A party of military and police went to the re side . . 'e e t t. Mr. Ward, a farmer residing there, to enforce the stataa tion, at the suit of the Reverend Mr. Short. It s abr e that a son of Mr. Ward, and a labourer, receivca n.,to • f the 5 ',.10 wounds, on attempting to prevent the opening ° . Aer au a ono" t hree and doors of the farm. Eventually, amount of property was taken and conveyed nPacont floats into Dublin. This is the substance of the ac which reached us.—Dublin Evening Post. on the An inuest was held yesterday at Wapping, , 0 0 5 bo:V of a d man named Wickett, a barge -keeper, vv,!',odoo found dead in the cabin of a barge, lying in Dock basin. The deceased had been missing for som e "oh' and was f o und lying below, with his face towards tt_rt. the L' e v t i r oe, way, the door being blocked up by some tobacco Wi t rue oc the barge was loaded. There were no marks of vio t i: sice p, his person, and it was conjectured that, having gone . n iok e he had become overpowered and suffocated by the _7 .0 0e , arising from the fire, as there was no aperture for il . s c _e t,o el , There was, however, no positive evidence to that e ff ec t on the suggestion of the Coroner, the jury re t u rned b - ar ge, diet " That Williams Wickett was found dead bow without any marks of violence on his person, ba t ~ijencs by what means he came by his death there was no ev to show."